netdev - Re: 2.6.24 BUG: soft lockup

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:07:29 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Matheos.Worku@....COM,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, jarkao2@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 BUG: soft lockup - CPU#X

On Fri, 2008-28-03 at 21:26 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I agree that using jiffies is a pretty coarse approximation of
> proper scheduling.  However, in the absence of a better solution
> we have to live with it.

I know it works well enough and has for years; sure you could do better
but i wasnt questioning the solution - more than anything on my part
that was curiosity.

> Perhaps running these out of process context is the correct
> approach.

I saw something from Max Krasnyansky along those lines but havent quiet
followed it up. Should be interesting to see the effect over a large
types of workloads.

cheers,
jamal

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